Jennifer Linde, M.A, is a lecturer in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and the artistic director for The Empty Space at Arizona State University. She has engaged Civil Dialogue as a pedagogical tool in performance studies classes and facilitated Civil Dialogue events in public and educational contexts since 2004.

John Genette, M.A., developed the concept of Civil Dialogue as a graduate student in performance and rhetoric in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He has facilitated Civil Dialogue events on political and free speech issues in numerous venues since 2004. John is president of Black Mountain Communications.

Clark Olson, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State University. He co-taught a graduate methods module on facilitating Civil Dialogue with Linde and Genette in fall, 2010. In addition to facilitating Civil Dialogue events in public venues, he has introduced Civil Dialogue as an alternative to traditional debate in his argumentation classes at ASU.

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